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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Tianqi Xiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Weijun Hong , Xin Zhang , Yuehong Gao

Multiplicative fading is a major limitation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), restricting their effective coverage in both existing sub-6GHz systems and future mmWave networks. Although active RIS architectures mitigate this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Aparna V C , Shashank Shekhar , Sheetal Kalyani

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are vulnerable to blockages and node mobility due to the highly directional signal beams. The emerging Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) technique can effectively mitigate the blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Xiaowen Tian , Zhi Sun

The future 6G of wireless communication networks will have to meet multiple requirements in increasingly demanding levels, either individually or in combinations in small groups. This trend has spurred recent research activities on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 George C. Alexandropoulos , Geoffroy Lerosey , Merouane Debbah , Mathias Fink

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication have recently attracted the attention of the wireless communication community as a potential candidate for the next $6$-th generation (6G) of wireless networks. Various studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Recep A. Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

The synergy of metasurface-based holographic surfaces (HoloS) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is considered a key aspect for future communication networks. However, the optimization of dynamic metasurfaces requires the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Sicilia , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can help establish secondary line-of-sight links for 5G mmWave and beyond applications to cater for the large path loss and blockage in millimeter-wave direct links. It is desirable that the RISs…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yiming Yang , Mohammad Vaseem , Ruiqi Wang , Behrooz Makki , Atif Shamim

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently gained significant interest as an emerging technology for future wireless networks. This paper studies an RIS-assisted propagation environment, where a single-antenna source transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Trinh Van Chien , Lam Thanh Tu , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Hieu Van Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we focus our attention on the mitigation of beam squint for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Due to the intrinsic passive property, the phase shifts of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yun Chen , Da Chen , Tao Jiang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sparse code multiple access (RIS-SCMA) is an attractive scheme for future wireless networks. In this letter, for the first time, the RIS phase shifts of the uplink RIS-SCMA system are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Salama Ikki

Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

This letter investigates the performance of emerging wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an FRIS consists of…

Wireless communications are nowadays shifting to higher operation frequencies with the aim to meet the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. While reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are usually envisioned to restore the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Giorgos Stratidakis , Sotiris Droulias , Angeliki Alexiou

This paper presents a promising design concept for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), named plug-in RIS, wherein the RIS is plugged into an appropriate position in the environment, adjusted once according to the location of both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Mahmoud Raeisi , Ibrahim Yildirim , Mehmet Cagri Ilter , Majid Gerami , Ertugrul Basar

One of the promising technologies for the next generation wireless networks is the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). This technology provides planar surfaces the capability to manipulate the reflected waves of impinging signals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) offers a cost effective solution to link blockage problem in mmWave communications, and the prerequisite of which is the accurate estimation of (1) the optimal beams for base station/access point (BS/AP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication, which operates at high frequencies, has gained extensive research interest due to its significantly wide spectrum and short wavelengths. However, mmWave communication suffers from the notable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuwen Cao , Xiaowen Wu , Jiguang He , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Tony Q. S. Quek

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted integrated sensing and communication (RIS-ISAC) presents a promising system architecture to leverage the wide bandwidth available at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies, while mitigating severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yueheng Li , Xueyun Long , Mario Pauli , Suheng Tian , Xiang Wan , Benjamin Nuss , Tiejun Cui , Haixia Zhang , Thomas Zwick

In traditional Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) systems, the RIS is mounted on stationary structures like buildings, walls, or posts. They have shown promising results in enhancing the performance of wireless systems like capacity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 I. Zakir Ahmed , Hamid Sadjadpour

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma